LEARNED A NEW WORD LAST NIGHT

I watched the Taladega Zero Coke 500 race last night...purely by accident.  I was waiting for one of my cooking/decorating shows to come on and there was nice Nascar race being televised.

At first I didn't pay too much attention because these kinds of events are soothing kind of like a golf tournament,  lots of ambient noise in the back ground, a little sumpin' sumpin' happens, I nod off.

But they were doing something called bump drafting.  Huh?  The guy in the back car drives right up to the bumper of the car in front of him, gives him a bump and the guy in front speeds up and the guy in back rides the draft, speeds things up over all.  So pretty soon every one I mean all what seemed like 80 cars were paired up bump drafting at speeds of between 190 and 197 miles per  hour.  This went on for HOURS.

There were three scheduled green light pit stops, there was the usual tires, gas, wipe down stuff and the guy holding the gas can was spraying on PAM on the back bumper so the two cars would not stick to each other. Some pit crews were using lard. 

There were a couple of spectacular crashes caused by the ittiest bittiest slide too far up hill.  This knocked out a few drivers had been "partnering" with other drivers on track. They go to green and back to normal, drivers pairing up kind of like accelerated speed dating.  The announcer kept exclaiming that there had been record setting leader exchanges, some thing like 30 different leaders. I think is what I heard. 

This goes all the way to 6 laps and there was an um high speed slide into the infield that knocked out some more drivers.  Then the announcer said that they had three tries to win under the checker/green flag status. Which means that WWIII could start on the track but under certain circumstances a winner would be declared.

Um, okay GO!  There were two sets of contenders that kept on bump drafting, there were TWO more wrecks and someone did win about half a millisecond before the last wreck.  That was sort of exciting.  No one was hurt.  There is a lot controversy about even allowing this kind of driving.  What next blind folded pit crews?